The new Chiltern Railways timetable comes into operation on December 14.

The new Chiltern Railways timetable comes into operation on December 14.

There are some changes locally, but once again Chiltern is refusing to stop trains at Sudbury Hill Harrow station late evening, or to stop there at all at weekends, when ludicrously the station is closed altogether.

Users of Sudbury and Harrow Road station are even worse off,this is the only rush-hour only station in London, and is arguably one of the dirtiest, most rundown and off-putting stations in the capital.

Other areas of Chiltern's operation have been rightly praised, all the more pity that a company whose mission statement is 'To be the best train operator in the UK' should persist in treating its London suburban stations as the Cinderellas of its network.